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The first of the three worlds, comprising the hells, and the realms of the pretas, animals, humans, asuras, and the six classes of kamaloka gods (Four Great Kings, Heaven of the Thirty-three, Heaven Free of Conflict (Yama), The Joyous Realm (Tushita), Enjoying Magical Creations, and Mastery over Others' Creations) +
Although this term simply means “action,” it has come to be widely used to signify the result produced by past actions (Tib. las kyi 'bras bu), often with the implication of destiny or fate and of something beyond one's control. In the Buddhist teachings, the principle of karma covers the whole process of actions leading to results in future lives, which is something that is very definitely within one's control. +
The five psycho-physical components into which a person can be analyzed and which together produce the illusion of a self. They are form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness +
The five principal afflictive emotions: bewilderment, ignorance, or confusion (Tib. gti mug), (2) attachment or desire (Tib. 'dod chags), (3) aversion, hatred, or anger (Tib. zhe sdang), (4) jealousy (Tib. phra dog), and (5) pride (Tib. nga rgyal) +
The birthplace near Rajagriha of the Buddha's disciple Shariputra, which much later, starting in the time of the Gupta kings (fifth century), became one of the great centers of learning in Buddhist India. It was destroyed around A.D. 1200 +
a class of beings whose jealous nature spoils their enjoyment of their fortunate rebirth in the higher realms and involves them in constant conflict with the gods in the god realms +
The most terrible of the hells, also called the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed +
The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-three +
“the translated word”: the Tibetan translations of the original canonical works that recorded the Buddha's teachings of the Tripitaka and the tantras. The Kangyur comprises a collection of more than one hundred volumes +
“action, cause, and result”: the process by which every action inevitably produces a corresponding effect. +
Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering +
The Buddha to come, the fifth in this present kalpa. He is one of the eight principal Bodhisattva disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni +
(eleventh-twelfth century) An Indian siddha who established the teachings of the Shijepa (Tib. zhi byed pa) School. Teacher of Machik Labdrön, to whom he transmitted the Chö teachings. He travelled to Tibet several times +
“individual liberation”: the collective term for the different forms of Buddhist ordination and their respective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya +
The accumulation of merit (Tib. bsod nams) and the accumulation of wisdom (Tib. ye shes) +
“The Joyous”: one of the realms of the gods in the world of desire, in which Buddha Shakyamuni took a final rebirth before appearing in this world. The future Buddha, Maitreya, is currently in the Tushita Heaven teaching the Mahayana +
“wheel”: and therefore also translated as “cyclic existence”; the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as a result of their actions and afflictive emotions +
An act of veneration that consists of walking clockwise, concentratedly and with awareness, around a sacred object, e.g., a temple, stupa, or holy mountain, or the residence, and even the person, of a spiritual master +
The followers of the first teachings of the Secret Mantrayana propagated in Tibet by the great masters Vimalamitra and Padmasambhava in the eighth century +
(1) A scripture containing the teachings of the Buddha; (2) the Sutrapitaka (mdo sde), the one of the Three Pitakas that deals with meditation +
